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Marine Weather and Tides Kaktovik, AK Version 3.4

NOTICE 10/9/2019 Updated the Marine Zones. 9/4/2019 Fixed the weather maps due to NOAA moving them. 7/25/2019 New feature in the Airports section gives a link to 5 minute updates for data reports. 6/2/2019. Many thanks to a user for reporting an error on one of the Edit pages. The switch to PHP 7.2 caused many pages that previously worked to quit working. I fixed many but I still depend on users to report ones I missed. Please report errors HERE or send an email to me at L-36.com. Allen

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Sunrise 8:38AM

Sunset 6:35PM

Monday October 14, 2019 2:52 AM AKDT (10:52 UTC)

Moonrise 5:47PM

Moonset 8:33AM

Illumination 100%

NOTE: Some of the data on this page has not been verified and should be used with that in mind. It may and occasionally will, be wrong. The tide reports are by xtide and are NOT FOR NAVIGATION.

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7 Day Forecast for Marine Location Near Kaktovik, AK

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Fxak69 pafg 132340 afdafg northern alaska forecast discussion national weather service fairbanks ak 340 pm akdt Sun oct 13 2019 Synopsis Snow along the alcan border will end this afternoon as the cold front causing this moves east of the border. Former typhoon hagibis will bring strong east winds to the west coast of alaska Mon into tue, and to the eastern arctic coast tue into wed. This will also bring moderate easterly drainage winds mon and Tue to the areas of interior that normally get these winds such as delta junction and indian mountain to shungnak. At this time expect winds to remain below public warning and advisory level, and marine winds to remain below storm force level. Much of the interior now has snow cover, excepting the area from fairbanks west to mcgrath and the seward peninsula, and the yukon flats. This will cause temperatures to drop into the single digits and teens in most snow covered areas of the interior once skies clear tonight, with teens in the snow free areas. This will also cause steam fog along most rivers and lakes in the interior tonight through Mon am. Aloft... the long wave pattern consists of a trough over NW russia, a ridge over mainland alaska, and a second trough over the western bering and NE russia. This second trough will extend east over the bering sea on mon, then extend east over the gulf of alaska and southern alaska and undercut the ridge on Tue and wed. This will cause a drying trend through mon, and then a cloudy and cooling trend from Tue into the weekend. A short wave trough from inuvik to big delta will move east of the alcan border tonight. Clouds and light snow east of this trough will diminish along the trough with clearing west of the trough. Surface... high pressure over the north slope and northern interior of alaska will move move east of the alcan border and north of the alaska coast Mon night and tue. This is causing s-sw winds along the arctic coast that is keeping skies partly cloudy with patchy fog there now. The winds will turn east along the arctic coast on mon night, and then increase Tue into Wed as the high moves offshore. Expect east winds to increase to 20-30 mph by tue, with gusts of 40 mph in zone 204 Tue and Tue night. In the interior, east winds will develop Mon as the high moves east, and then increase Mon night and Tue as the gradient increases due to the approaching bering sea low. Will see easterly winds 15g30 mph Mon into Tue in areas prone to easterly winds such as near delta junction and from indian mountain to shungnak. A 991 mb low west of anadyr will move to west of wrangel island as a 989 mb low by 4am Mon and then continue moving northwest.

This is causing SE winds 10-20 kt along the west coast and causing stratus clouds there as well. Expect the clouds to decrease tonight along the west coast as this low moves nw. The remnants of typhoon hagibis will move north into the southwest bering sea tonight and re-strengthen, then move to the central bering sea as a 951 mb low by 4pm mon, and to the northern bering sea as a 957 mb low by 4pm tue, then weaken slowly. This will cause east winds 25-35 mph to develop over much of the west coast of alaska Mon and continue into Tue before decreasing slowly into wed. Over the northern bering marine zone 210 and st lawrence island expect maximum gales force winds of 45kt to develop Mon and continue into tue. Expect winds to gust 50-55 mph at st lawrence island and along the yukon delta Mon pm into tue. Expect a chance of rain and snow to spread over the west coast south of the bering strait Mon night and Tue ahead of this low. A low in the gulf of alaska will move to the NE gulf of alaska on tue and cause clouds and a chance of snow over the SE interior tue into wed. This will cause the winds to decrease and temps to become less cold at night Tue night and wed. Discussion Models initialize well aloft and at the surface at 12z sun, and show similar solutions through 12z mon. After that time, the nam takes the remnants of typhoon hagibis to the northwest more quickly than the GFS ecmf and canadian models. Since this former typhoon is now tapping into cold air and will see rapid deepening tonight, expect the track to slow down per the GFS solution. This cyclone is expected to deepen 30 mb between 18z today and 18z mon which classifies it as bomb cyclogenisis. This type of rapid deepening, along with the tropical nature of the system, often causes models to perform less well than normal on the track. At this time we prefer the GFS track since it is similar to the ecmf and canadian model tracks, and because the slower track fits with the deepening system. With precipitation, than NAM takes precip north to fast along with the entire weather system. Prefer a blend of the GFS and ecmf fore precip locations, and do not expect any significant amounts through wed. Coastal hazard potential days 3 and 4... east winds 25-35kt along the west coast and Mon night and tue, and along the north slope Tue into Wed will cause below normal sea levels. Hydrology Rivers are falling, and river and lakes are beginning to freeze. Afg watches warnings advisories Small craft advisory for pkz200-pkz210-pkz215-pkz220-pkz225. Gale warning for pkz210. Jb oct 19

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Weather Reporting Stations

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Airport Reports

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Airport	Dist	Age	Wind kt	Visibility	Sky/Weather	Temp	DewPt	Humidity	Pressure
Barter Island, Barter Island LRRS Airport, AK	127 mi	61 min	SSW 7	10.00 mi		16°F	10°F	80%	1018.1 hPa

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Tide / Current Tables for Flaxman Island, Alaska

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